At the heart of Guangzhou’s cultural sites development, a lasting, state-of-the-art monument to the new millennium overlooking the Pearl River. Its contoured profile, unique twin boulder design and approach promenade enhances urban function, opens access to the riverside and dock areas and creates a new dialogue with the emerging town.
Ground Floor Plan
The Guangzhou Opera House is a structure that rises and falls at the foot of Zhujiang Boulevard, confirming Guangzhou as one of Asia’s cultural centres.
Bringing together two adjacent sites for the proposed Museum and metropolitan activities, it forms an adjunct to the Haixinsha Tourist Park Island and a dominant riverside focus for visitors.
Viewed from the park at the centre of Zhujiang Boulevard, the Opera House creates a visual prelude to the Tourist Park Island beyond. Viewed from the river, the towers of Zhujiang New Town provide a dramatic backdrop to the Opera House and offer a unified vision of the setting’s civic and cultural buildings.
An approach promenade is cut into the landscape – an internal street beginning at the proposed Museum site at the opposite side of the central boulevard and leading to the Opera House. To one side of this promenade, a cafe, bar, restaurant and retail facilities are embedded shell-like into the landforms.
Visitors arriving by car or bus are set down at a ‘drop-off’ point on the north side of the site on Huajiu Road, while service vehicles access the Opera House and Theatre Buildings at either end of the same road. VIP access to the Opera House is from the western boundary, facing Huaxia Road.
ZAHA HADID ARCHITECTS
Zaha Hadid with Patrik Schumacher
Woody K.T. Yao
Simon Yu
Jason Guo, Yang Jingwen, Long Jiang, Ta-Kang Hsu, Yi-Ching Liu, Zhi Wang, Christine Chow, Cyril Shing, Filippo Innocenti, Lourdes Sanchez, Hinki Kwong, Junkai Jiang
(1st stage): Filippo Innocenti, Matias Musacchio, Jenny Huang, Hon Kong Chee, Markus Planteu, Paola Cattarin, Tamar Jacobs, Yael Brosilovski, Viggo Haremst, Christian Ludwig, Christina Beaumont, Lorenzo Grifantini, Flavio La Gioia, Nina Safainia, Fernando Vera, Martin Henn, Achim Gergen, Graham Modlen, Imran Mahmood. (2nd stage):Cyril Shing, YanSong Ma, Yosuke Hayano, Adriano De Gioannis, Barbara Pfenningstorff
Guangzhou Pearl River Foreign Investment, Architectural Designing Institute (Guangzhou, China)
SHTK (Shanghai, China); Guangzhou Pearl River, Foreign Investment Architectural Designing Institute
KGE Engineering (Zhuhai, China)
Guangzhou Pearl River Foreign Investment, Architectural Designing Institute
Max Fordham and Partners (London, UK), OK Design Group
ENFI (Beijing, China)
Beijing Light & View (Beijing, China)
Marshall Day Acoustics (Melbourne, Australia)
Guangzhou Municipal Construction Group Co. Ltd. (Guangzhou, China)
Guangzhou Jiancheng Engineering Costing Consultant, Office Ltd. (Guangzhou, China)
China Construction Third Engineering Bureau Co. Ltd. (Guangdong, China)
